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37. EADEM FABULA SIMILI PRORSUS sensu de Cervo laudante cornua sua. (Perry 74)

APPARENT Cervo vitreis ramosa sub undis,
Cornua, laudari posse sat illa negat.
At fuga per densam cum duceret anxia silvam,
Plus quam profuerint illa, nocere videt.
Devovet haec ergo, et iam crura fugacia laudat,
Quae robusta parum dixerat ante sibi.
Non, quae pulchra tibi sint, esse potissima credas,
Sed quibus utilitas maior inesse solet.

The image from Fable 149 would fit here.


Phryx Aesopus Habitu Poetico, by Hieronymus Osius, 1574 (artist not identified). Available online at the University of Mannheim. This book clearly recycles a set of images from another book of Aesop's fables. In some cases, the illustration does not match the fable shown, and in some cases I have not been able to identify what fable a given illustration is supposed to illustrate.